Charles Engelhard
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Contact Info
- Phone: (607) 972 - 4146
- Email: cengelhard@digipen.edu
- Address: 4625 148th Ave NE; Apt. PP-101; Bellevue WA 98007
- Wiki: User:Charlie
Personal Info
- Age: 22
- Myers-Briggs: INTP
- Internet people who I think are Pretty Cool Guys:
- Joel Spolsky
- Paul Graham
- Tablizer (or maybe not)
Skills
Key
| Stars | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ★★★ | I have developed this skill over many projects and am extremely comfortable with it. |
| ★★ | I have developed this skill over one or two large projects or several personal projects and am comfortable with it. |
| ★ | I have developed this skill in only one project or else long ago and have a novice (but highly expandable) grasp of it. |
Programming languages
- C/C++ (★★★)
- Lua (★★★)
- GLSL (★)
- C# (★)
- Python (★★)
- Visual Basic (★)
- Java (★★)
- Pascal (★)
- Looking for an excuse to learn:
Data technologies
Notable libraries
- C++ STL (★★★)
- Winsock (★★)
- OpenGL (★★)
- DirectX (★)
- Windows GDI (★)
- IUPLua (★★)
Tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio (★★★)
- SciTE (scintilla project) (★★)
- Netbeans IDE (★★)
- Maven (★)
- 3D Studio Max (★)
- Paint.NET (★★★)
Interpersonal
- working closely with game designers (★★★)
- working closely with artists (★)
- programming leadership (★★)
Soft
- game design (★)
- 2D linear algebra (★★★)
- 3D linear algebra (★★)
- general engineering and problem-solving skills (★★★)
- Soulcalibur IV (★★★)
General programming
- object-oriented systems design (★★★)
- functional programming techniques (★★★)
- AI programming; machine learning (★★★)
- debugging (★★★)
Accomplishments
DigiPen Games
Legend of the SteamYard
- Team: Gattai (17 person team, including artists and designers)
- Description: 3rd person shooter
- Year: Junior (2009 - 2010)
- Job title: Technical Director
- Responsibilities:
- Tech lead
- architecture
- game logic
- level editor
- tools
- GUI system
- level system
- camera / controls logic
Poly
- Team: Esoteric Reference (4 person team, including designer)
- Description: Side-scrolling action platformer (Sonic-like, physics-based)
- Year: Sophomore (2008 - 2009)
- Job title: Technical Director
- Responsibilities:
- physics
- collision
- game logic
- tools
- particle behavior
Scylin
- Team: CSMT
- Description: top-down Rogue-like RPG
- Year: Freshman (2008)
- Job title: Product Manager
- Responsibilities:
- AI
- collision
- neat little graphical effects
- some content
- level system
Specific systems
- Designed and implemented a game architecture from the ground up. Features included:
- entirely data driven design: event-based game logic and content entirely described in YAML files so powerful that they were almost Turing Complete
- dynamic composition component-based object model
- extensible and flexible data-driven GUI system
- Serialization system
- Model-View-Controller system emerged as an obvious implementation of the greater architecture.
- easy-to-use subscription-based messaging system with support for multicasting and "man-in-the-middle"-style receiving.
- Extensible "God's Algorithm" generic goal-seeking implementation.
- Helped design and implement a UDP-based protocol for networking real-time applications.
- 2D physics engine (won 'Best Physics' for sophomore games 2009)
- designed and implemented a common-sense database system written in Lua for the purposes of separating player and character knowledge and representing complex interrelated knowledge sets for AIs.
- implemented a basic OpenGL graphics engine and some basic shaders including cube-mapped shadows, phong lighting, reflection, and refraction.
History
Education
- Owego Free Academy '07 (High School Diploma)
- Digipen Institute of Technology '11 (BS in Real Time Interactive Simulation)
- (now entering senior year)
Employment
Owego Heat Treat Inc.
- Jobs performed:
- Data entry: 2004 - 2007
- Computer maintenance: 2004 - 2009
- Database design, programming: 2009 - 2009
